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ILLINOIS COMMISSION 

[Appointed by Governor Edward F. Dunne, July 1st, 1913, 
to arrange Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom, un- 
der Act passed by 48th General Assembly.] :: :: :: 

THE GOVERNOR, EX-OFF1CIO 
RIGHT REVEREND SAMUEL FALLOWS, D.D.. LL.D., - PRESIDENT 
MRS. SUSAN LAWRENCE JOERGEN-DAHL. - - VICE-PRESIDENT 
MAJ. GEO. W. FORD, TREASURER 

REV. A. J. CAREY, Ph.D.. D.D. 

HON. JOHN DA1LEY 

HON. W. DUFF PIERCY 

HON. R. R. JACKSON 

HON. MEDILL McCORMICK 



THOMAS WALLACE SWANN 



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THE ILLINOIS (NATIONAL) 
HALF-CENTURY ANNIVERSARY OF NEGRO 

FREEDOM. 



The Declaration of Independence and the Emancipa- 
te* Proclamation are two of the greatest documents in the 

tZl Pm f ent f hUman liberty ' ° n the first ' Washington 
laid the foundations of the freest and greatest Democracy 

on earth. Through the second, Lincoln extended the free- 
dom and opportunities of this Democracy to the millions of 
Negroes, who for two and one half centuries had been sub- 
jected to the cruelties and injustice of inhuman slavery 

Few realized how vital were the dangers of American 
Slavery, until the time when its abolition was indispensable 
to the peace and perpetuity of the Union of the American 
Mates. 

For two hundred and fifty years, the intellectual, moral 
and social evils of slavery withered and corrupted every 
phase of American thought and life. So far-reaching were 
its baneful and blighting influences, that in many forms 
they still linger to plague and endanger the Nation. 

From '61 to '65 the abolition of physical Slavery exacted 
of the Nation a terrible toll of agony, treasure and life. 
This was the price, only in part, which justice then de- 
manded for the physical wrongs which the Nation had done 
the Negro. 

VALOR CAN That thC American Nation was able to free 
the Slave, pay this price and live, is one of 
the most striking and phenomenal facts in political achieve- 
ment; therefore the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary 
of American Bondmen, practically consummated in '65, is 
a national event of the broadest human interest. 




In the galaxy of brilliant men who contributed so much 
to this new estate, the name of Abraham Lincoln stands 
pre-eminent. To his political genius, more than to any other 
single factor, the Nation is indebted for the preservation of 
the Union with Negro freedom. While Lincoln was born in 
Kentucky, and lived in Indiana, yet it was Illinois that gave 
him to the country and the world. It is peculiarly fitting, 
therefore, that a great celebration should be held in this 
state. 



ILLINOIS In numbers too large to mention, the 

CELEBRATION importance and significance of such a 
Celebration is appreciated by the people of Illinois. While 
five years ago Governor Deneen emphasized in a public ad- 
dress, the educational value of the Half-Century Exposition 
idea to allay race prejudice, growing out of a widespread 
unfamiliarity with the Negro's general social progress, it 
was the good fortune of Governor Dunne and the 48th Illi- 
nois General Assembly to consummate practically this noble 
and beneficent enterprise, by the passage of a bill creating 
a commission and making an appropriation for an Exhibi- 
tion and Celebration to be held in the year 1915. 

The work of the Celebration and Exposition in Illinois 
has been divided into six general departments as follows: 

(1) Department of Religion. 

(2) Department of Education. 

(3) Department of Military affairs. 

(4) Department of Industry. 

(5) Department of Social Progress, and the 

(6) Miscellaneous Department. 

With a number of subordinate bureaus, all departments 
will organize with a departmental staff. Each department 
having its director and an advisory committee, selected from 





HON. EDWARD F. DUNNE 

Governor of Illinois 

PRESIDENT EX-OFFICIO, ILLINOIS COMMISSION 

Former Judge, Superior Court.Cook Co. 

Former Mayor of Chicago 




men and women throughout the country with expert and 
special knowledge of expositions. 

DEPARTMENT The work of the Department of Re- 
OF RELIGION ligion will be to illustrate the religious 
development of the Negro in each denomination represented 
in Illinois and the various states. Special emphasis will be 
laid upon the spiritual and intellectual progress in Negro 
church life as disclosed by the influence and variety of his 
religious activity, in addition to the number and material 
value of church property and schools. To this will be 
added a religious exhibit. 



DEPARTMENT OF 
EDUCATION 



The Department of Education 
will combine the wonderful ad- 
vancement of the Negro people in all the lower and higher 
culture through the Common Schools, High Schools, 
Academies, Colleges, and Universities. There will be an 
exhibit showing concretely this progress. 



DEPARTMENT OF The Department of Military Af- 
MILITARY AFFAIRS fairs will include the participa- 
tion of the Negro in all the wars of the country and the 
military life of the states and Nation and will be empha- 
sized by a suitable collection of selected exhibits. 



DEPARTMENT OF The Department of Industry will 
INDUSTRY illustrate the progress of the 

Negro in all the lower grades and avenues of employment to 
which the Negro has been admitted as a wage earner, to- 
gether with his development along the lines of independent 
and competitive business enterprise, with appropriate ex- 
hibits in agriculture, banking, insurance, real estate, pho- 




tography, catering, tonsorial parlors, groceries and similar 
business vocations. 



DEPARTMENT OF The Department of Social Prog- 
SOCIAL PROGRESS w ju embrace Negro advance- 
ment and activity in the higher forms of industry and cul- 
ture, as inventions, the sciences, professions and fraternal 
organizations. Aside from a suitable exhibit, representa- 
tive of the Negro's higher intellectual and industrial life, 
a sociological congress will be held, during which leading 
sociologists of the races will be invited to discuss and con- 
sider the different phases of American race relationships. 



MISCELLANEOUS The Miscellaneous Department 
DEPARTMENT wil i have charge of the lines of 

Negro activity which are not included in the foregoing de- 
partments, such as athletics, women's work, historical so- 
cieties, naval history, public comfort, exploration, civics, 
philanthropic and benevolent movements and in addition 
to representative exhibits, a mother's congress will be held 
at which leading female representatives will discuss the 
problems associated with the improvement of Negro home 
life. 



MISTAKEN The country is already familiar with 

VIEWPOINT the shortcomings of the American Ne- 
gro as so often portrayed in the press of the country, and the 
commission will endeavor, especially, to set forth the negro 
as he really is, struggling manfully against great odds for 
recognition on his merits, for his rights in American democ- 
racy, and for a fair opportunity to actualize his highest 
moral destiny, and to contribute his proper portion to 




American culture and civilization, 
so well said : 



For as Dr. DuBois has 



Already the poems of Dunbar and Braithwaite, the essays of 
Miller and Grimke, the Music of Rosamond Johnson, and the 
paintings of Tanner are the property of the Nation and the world. 
Instead of being led and defended by others as in the past, they 
are gaining their own leaders, their own voices, their own ideals. 
Self-realization is thus coming slowly, but surely to another of 
the world's great races and they are today girding themselves 
to fight in the van of progress, not simply for their own rights 
as men but for the ideals of the greater world in which they live; 
the emancipation of women, universal peace, democratic govern- 
ment, the socialization of wealth and human brotherhood. 



FREEDOM'S Among the most notable and attractive 

VANGUARD features in connection with this Anni- 

versary Celebration will be an exhibit of data, showing the 
contributions made by the leaders for Negro freedom. Much 
of this data is already assembled, and only little of it has 
been ever published. It includes not only the Liberators 
of the Emancipation Period, but covers almost minutely 
the work of the early patriots as far back as the days of 
the American Revolution. Among these are Pastorius, 
Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Lee, Crispus Attucks, Joseph 
Bloomfield, Peter Salem, Simon Tuck, Alexander Hamilton, 
Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Woolman, Phyllis 
Wheatley, John Jay, Absolom Jones, William Durham, 
Dessalines', Touissant, Sandiford, Benezet, George Leile, 
Lemuel Haynes, Harriet and Joseph Martineau, Harry 
Hosier, Henry Evans, Ralph Freeman, Abraham Marshall, 
Jesse Peters, Richard Allen, James Varick, John Adams, 
Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Atwell, Dr. James McCune 
Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Charles 
Sumner, George William Curtis, Horace Greeley, Gerritt 
Smith, Elijah P. Lovejoy, Owen Lovejoy, Sojourner Truth, 
Frederick Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott, 



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Bishop Payne, William Wells Brown, the Bustills, Robert 
Purvis, William Jay, Thad Stevens, Henry Wilson, the 
Grimke Sisters, Hannibal Hamlin, James and William For- 
ten, Phillips Brooks, Cassius M. Clay, Goldwin Smith, 
Queen Victoria, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Daniel 
O'Connell, Victor Hugo, Cardinal McCloskey, John Boyle 
O'Reilly, Professor Charles H. Reason, the Ripleys, Carl 
Schurz, Phoebe and Annie Carey, Bishop Hughes, Bishop 
Turner, Henry Ward Beecher, Susan Avery Hook, Harriet 
Tubman, Henry Highland Garnett, Parker Pillsbury, Lydia 
Maria Child, Passmore Williamson, the Hallowells, Walt 
Whitman, Lowell, Whittier, Holmes, Emerson, Bryant, 
Longfellow, Grant, Logan, Sherman, Bishop Hood, Joseph 
C. Price, General Armstrong, Benjamin Banneker, Edward 
W. Blyden, Peter Ogden, Bishop Holly, George W. Black. 
Robert G. Ingersoll, George Peabody, Bishop Arnett, 
George W. Gale, Sheridan, Howard, Miles, Shaw, Carney, 
Burnside, Smalls, Walls, Ben Butler, John M. Palmer, 
Bishop Hughes, Isaiah C. Wears, William Still, Martin R. 
Delaney, William Howard Day, Bishop Campbell, Howard 
Johnson, E. D. Bassett, Frances E. W. Harper, Paul Cuffey, 
Alexander Crummell, Edward Everett Hale, James H. 
Wolfe, Lewis Hayden, H. B. Vashon, Peter H. Clark, Hi- 
ram R. Revels, John Mercer Langston, McCants Stewart, 
Ira Aldridge, David Spencer, Frank Johnson, Samuel 
Ringold Ward, Samuel W. Chase, George Hockett, George 
M. Arnold, George Williams, Jacob C. White, Alexander 
Clark, Lewis Wood, John Jasper, Henry Brown, Thomas C. 
Motts, John Wesley Cromwell, Nathaniel Tice, Phillip A. 
Bell, Charles Lemon Redmond, George T. Downing, T. 
Morris Chester, Bishop Handy, Robert Browne Elliot, 
Bishop Haven, Dr. A. R. Abbott, Bishop Wayman, Bishop 
Cain, Emanuel Fortune, Frederick Hinton, Dr. P. W. Ray, 
Dr. James Augusta, Oliver Morton, William Watkins, 



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James Le Count, J. M. Trotter, Dr. Samuel F. T. Cook, 
Joseph Cassey, Richard T. Greener, Amanda Smith, 
Thomas Earle, Horace Mann, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John 
W. Bunn, Horace Binney, Richard P. White, David Paul 
Brown, William Quincy Atwood, Octavius V. Catto, Dr. 
Samuel G. Howe, the Lawrences, the Lippincotts, the 
Coates and the Darlingtons, and that illustrious and innu- 
merable host who led Freedom's van. These constitute the 
true Academy of Immortals! 

NOVEL JOHN BROWN'S daughter will exhibit a 

FEATURES lock of her father's hair and a model of a 
fort constructed by him. A box used in the transportation 
of slaves on the Underground Railroad will be added to 
the novel features of the Exhibit. There will be Congresses 
and Exhibits representing the Y. M. C. A. movement among 
the Negro people, and a Roman Catholic exhibit depicting in 
pictured, painted and sculptured form the marvelous prog- 
ress this great branch of the Christian church is making 
among its American Negro communicants. 

ILLINOIS' It is therefore with the greatest pleas- 

INVITATION ure that the people of Illinois speaking 
officially through their Governor, and The Commission ap- 
pointed by him, invite the people of the Nation to partici- 
pate in and be present at the Golden Jubilee of Negro free- 
dom to be held in the month of August, 1915, in the cities 
of Springfield and Chicago, which extend to all a hearty 
welcome. 




«■ OCT 27 1913 



FRATERNAL PRESS 

r. r. jackson, president 

3441 State Street, Chicago 



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